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Friday, October 30, 2009

[O/T] Technical Fail As Usual

Okay, this is a really stupid question, but I'll throw it out there anyway: Would anyone have a recommendation for a feed aggregator (a la Bloglines or Google Reader) that works with Twitter feeds? I'm looking for the laziest solution possible, basically.

Nothing happening around here. No poker. I did take a survey sent to me by Full Tilt - I kind of suspect I wasn't really the target audience. None of the things they were asking about are likely to motivate me to up the volume - basically I stick to occasional dabbling in play chips because of the UIGEA and a flaky internet connection.

And also because I suck at poker, but let's keep that our little secret, okay?

Monday, October 26, 2009

LOLOTD

From a forum:
Natural selection will eventually get you. You can't beat it over the long run.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Fresh

You have to hand it to the major sites - they are always doing something to try and keep things fresh. Whether it's double or nothing sit n goes, antes, badugi, you name it, there is always something different to try.

I couldn't get motivated to do much of anything last night so I decided to check out the new cashout tournament format from Full Tilt. The basic concept is that half your buyin goes into a cashout pool and you can cash out (sell) some or all of your chips at any time*.

Fascinating concept and I'd be interested to see how hard it would be to amass a stack, lock in a return of your entry and then try and freeroll your way to a cash. I wouldn't know because I'm very rusty and got lots of **** cards.

Will play again.

I also noted that the ante option has made its way down to some of the nanostakes tables. Deep stacked 6 max PLO with antes sounds like fun.

Thank you FTP for keepin' it fresh.

* any time being from the end of the late registration period until the final table. The final table gets the balance of the cashout pool based on chip counts.

[WAY O/T] Say What?

A bank issued credit card with a 79.9% interest rate?

Holy **** and here I thought 20% was out of line.

Bring back usury laws.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

On Plan, Sadly

Still on board with the 'play poker at least every couple weeks' plan.

Played one table of PLO for a half hour or so until my internet connection degraded. Wifi sucks.

I won a few imaginary dollars.

Then I finished my tax return and wrote a check for something like 1,600 times what I "won".

I is sad.

Wouldn't it be nice if the IRS took Sklansky bucks. Or FTP play chips.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Wheeee

I played a turbo sit-n-go the other night. It was probably the first SnG I've played in 6 months.

I paid almost zero attention as I was busy donating play chips on a PLO table at the same time.

By sheer lack of involvement I ended up 2nd, cashing after the shove monkeys picked themselves off one after another.

LOL poker.